Dashboard widgets

Metrics dashboard widgets

For definitions of the following widgets, see Metrics.

• Metrics | Enterprise resources and virtual datacenter resources

• Metrics | Virtual appliances

• Metrics | Virtual datacenters

• Metrics | Virtual machines

• Metrics | Events

• Metrics | Last deployed VMs

• Metrics | Last triggered alerts

Hybrid dashboard widgets

For definitions of the following widgets, see Hybrid.

• Hybrid | Virtual machines count

• Hybrid | Workload of VMs by location

Billing dashboard widgets

For details of these Hybrid dashboard widgets, please see Hybrid

• Hybrid | Last bills

• Hybrid | Estimated bill

Optimization dashboard widgets

For details of these widgets, please see Optimization.

• Optimization | Virtual machines CPU usage greater than 80 percent

• Optimization | Virtual machines RAM usage greater than 80 percent

• Optimization | Virtual machines longest time deployed

• Optimization | Virtual machines CPU usage less than 30 percent

• Optimization | Virtual machines RAM usage less than 30 percent

• Optimization | Unused public IPs

• Optimization | Unused load balancers

Virtual machine snapshots

If the user has the privilege to View enterprise snapshots list, this widget will display all of the snapshots in the user's tenant with:

• Name

• Virtual machine

• Include memory

• Size

• Creation date

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Virtual machine snapshots widget

Configuration options: Title.

To jump directly to the VM with the snapshot, double-click on the Snapshot entry.

Entity monitoring

The Entity monitoring widget will display the monitoring of a selected resource.

On the metric display the user can filter and refresh as for other monitoring panels.

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Entity monitoring dashboard widget displaying the CPU metric

The user can select the resource, which is a VM, VApp, or scaling group, and the Metric.

Budget

The Budget widget will display the percentage used of the configured budget with the amount used and the total amount. You can create budgets for public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Google, and private cloud. See Manage budgets.

Abstract datastore tiers

This widget displays the amount of storage that an enterprise is using in the storage service levels for the whole platform.

The widget will display the abstract datastore tiers that are activated and allowed for the enterprise, and deactivated tiers.

Screenshot: For the current enterprise the chart displays storage usage by service levels with soft and hard limits.

 Key:

• Blue shading = used

• Orange line = soft limit

• Orange shading = soft limit exceeded

• Red line = hard limit

Options: Name; Show soft limits; show hard limits

Idle volumes

The Idle volumes widget will display the idle volumes of an enterprise or in the configured virtual datacenter with:

• Volume Name

• Tier

• Total size

Tenant cost report

The Tenant cost report widget will display cost and usage for private cloud on the dashboard for the selected tenant.

For this widget, the default is to display the data for the current month. The user can filter and select the months to display. There is also the option to hide resources without cost.

The user can click arrow buttons to open three levels of detail. From a virtual datacenter or managed services, you can display the resources within the virtual datacenter, such as VMs, and private networks, or a breakdown of managed services.

From a VM, the user can display the usage and cost details for each billable element of the VM, such as CPU time, RAM, and so on.

The following table shows the category of each resource in the Tenant cost report.

Cost usage resources and categories table